'About a year into our Voiceworks tenure, Elizabeth Flux and I found ourselves sitting in Carlton’s St Jude’s Church, sharing a romantic dinner and deconstructing every tiny thing that was wrong with our relationship. Despite the fact that I was un-wed — and Liz was married to somebody else (hi, Richard!) — we’d found ourselves enrolled in a multi-week couples counseling course, funded by the federal government’s marriage voucher program.' (Introduction)